Kuukauden cd
Rondo 3/2021

Erich Hobarth (viulu)
Aapo Häkkinen (fortepiano)
Alexander Rudin (arpeggione, sello)

Schubert: Piano trio no. 2
Schubert: Arpeggione sonata

Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata has today become part of the cello repertoire but it was originally written for the arpeggione, a form of bowed guitar invented by the Viennese maker Johann Georg Staufer in 1823. With a unique ethereal sound, this instrument reveals the true beauty of Schubert’s initial conception. The Piano Trio No. 2 was performed at the Vienna Musikverein on the first anniversary of Beethoven’s death – its extremes of urgent drama and sublime bittersweet lyricism are characteristic of Schubert’s artistic surge during his final year.